The last evacuee resolved onto the capital platform at nine minutes past the third hour.
Four hundred thousand people had gone through a buffer funded by eleven anchors. Nobody had died in the resolution, which Vasa reported in one line without any adjective attached.
Emilia held the braced bay through the whole of it from two districts away. Merek's healers worked the queue by triage order until the last block cleared.
Ava sat against a wall of that bay with a ruined right hand and counted arrivals. She had promised Emilia twenty minutes and had been gone for closer to thirty.
Deri brought her water at some point in the second hour and never mentioned it afterward. Two thousand nine hundred people had been standing on cargo rating for most of a night.
Then Marek Sol released every borrowed contribution he was still carrying that morning.
He did it himself rather than waiting for seven councils to finish their filings.
